There have been reports about a silver orb with eight thrusters and an internal cube. There are speculations that it was another unidentified flying object (UFO) or unidentified aerial phenomena (UAP), a Chinese spy balloon, or a drone.
'Cube in a Sphere' Sightings
Between 2014 and 2015, US Navy fighter pilots reported seeing these alien-looking vessels close to the Atlantic coast; in one instance, they almost tore the wing off an F/A-18 Super Hornet flying alongside the USS Roosevelt.
The Pentagon's recently retired chief of UFO studies, Dr. Sean Kirkpatrick, now thinks the objects were probably "next generation," "spherical," moving "very accurately" drones.
Although unconfirmed, his description corresponds with a drone prototype that Chinese researchers revealed in 2022. It is a silver ball with eight thrusters arranged at the corners of an interior cube, enabling it to perform previously unheard-of mid-air twists and flips.
Kirkpatrick stated that the instance shows why UFOs should be taken seriously and not made fun of.
From July 2022 to the end of December 2023, Dr. Kirkpatrick led the Pentagon's recently established All-domain Anomaly Resolution Office (AARO), applying his scientific background to examining military UFO reports.
Dr. Kirkpatrick informed NASA's UFO advisory council in May of last year that AARO had recorded around 800 instances of spherical, flying "metallic orb" UFOs. According to him, those sightings were common, and they observed them worldwide, noting that they made "interesting apparent maneuvers."
UAP Could Be the 'Next Generation' Drone
The degree to which these metallic orbs resemble the UFOs initially reported to the public by Ryan Graves, a former Navy lieutenant and fighter pilot, who described them to Congress as "a dark gray or black cube inside of a clear sphere," is unknown.
However, Dr. Kirkpatrick informed the program that it's quite possible that these unearthly crafts served as a platform for foreign espionage. In his opinion, the orb with an internal cube could be a high-tech drone, and it was designed for a purpose - to maneuver it accurately and efficiently.
"There's a large number of people, pilots, others, who have said, 'Hey, I saw this giant sphere. It had a cube in it,' he said, 'I don't understand it. It must be an alien,'" he said.
"Well, actually, no, there's a number of papers out. The most recent one was from the University of Singapore, I believe, where the next generation of drones that are being built are spherical."
They took an inflatable container about two meters in size and filled it with a cube. Additionally, the cube's corners that meet the sphere have been fused, removed, and replaced with tiny rockets, giving it eight thrusters. It can also have cameras and anything else you want to attach. One can control this drone very precisely since it has eight thrusters arranged in a cube, the UFO expert said.
"There are a number of advanced technologies that are being commercialized that people don't recognize. Why they go immediately to 'this is extraterrestrial' is another conversation," Kirkpatrick said.
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